Gender Warming

Updated Sept. 4, 1998 4:15 a.m. ET

When times are tough, it sometimes helps to take a break with a soft, distracting subject. Such a thing is the new study that says women prefer men who look like girls. The study, published in Nature magazine last week, found that modern women associate prettiness in men with desirable qualities like kindness, reliability and good parenting skills. We're told the female of the species has lost--or perhaps never really had--a taste for strong, rugged-looking men and the aggressive, selfish traits those features are said to...